Minority Language Writers in the Wake of World War One

A Case Study of Four European Authors

Jelle Krol (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

XIII, 346 Seiten

2020 | 1st ed. 2020
Springer International Publishing (Verlag)
978-3-030-52039-7 (ISBN)

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This book presents a comparative literary study of the works of four writers working in European minority languages - Frisian, Welsh, Scots and Breton. The author examines the different strategies employed by the four writers to create distinctive literary fields for their languages in the interwar era when self-determination had been promised to national minorities, finding that each had to make some degree of a step backwards into the past to enable them to make a leap forward. The book also discusses the problems resulting from this oscillation between traditionalism and modernism, drawing on concepts such as Pascale Casanova's ' littératures combatives ' to make sense of these minority languages and communities within the wider European context. This study will be of interest to students and scholars of minority languages - particularly the four explored here - as well as twentieth-century and comparative literature, multilingualism, and language policy.

Jelle Krol is a Subject Librarian and Specialist at Tresoar, the Frisian Literary and Historical Centre in Leeuwarden, The Netherlands. He received his PhD in 2018 from the University of Groningen, The Netherlands.

Chapter 1: Introduction.- Chapter 2: Frisia and the World: Douwe Kalma During and Shortly After the First World War.- Chapter 3: Reconnecting Wales to Europe: Saunders Lewis in the Interwar Years.- Chapter 4: Where Extremes Meet: Hugh MacDiarmid in the Period After World War One.- Chapter 5: Roparz Hemon: Combative Linguistic and Literary Nationalism in the 1920s and 1930s.- Chapter 6: Conclusions.

Erscheinungsdatum	22.08.2020
Reihe/Serie	Palgrave Studies in Minority Languages and Communities
Zusatzinfo	XIII, 346 p. 5 illus., 3 illus. in color.
Verlagsort	Cham
Sprache	englisch
Maße	148 x 210 mm
Gewicht	596 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Sprachwissenschaft
Schlagworte	Autonomy • Breton • Comparative Literature • Cultural Nationalism • Frisian • interwar literature • Language Policy • literary diction • minority languages • Multilingualism • post-nationalism • Scots • Self-determination • Welsh
ISBN-10	3-030-52039-0 / 3030520390
ISBN-13	978-3-030-52039-7 / 9783030520397
Zustand	Neuware